1. Role play is a method of teaching foreign language

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Glossary 
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs):
“An approach designed 
to help teachers find out what students are learning in the classroom 
and how well they are learning it. This approach is learner-centered, 
teacher-directed, mutually beneficial, formative, context-specific, 
ongoing, and firmly rooted in good practice”. Through using a CAT the 
instructor is able to gather formative feedback on students learning to 
inform future teaching.
Classroom Climate:
“The intellectual, social, emotional, and physical 
environments in which our students learn”. Course climate is 
determined by factors like faculty-student interaction, the tone the 
instructor sets, course demographics, student-student interactions, and 
the range of perspectives represented in course content. 
Cognitive Load:
Cognitive load refers to the demands and limitations 
on working memory storage given the limited amount of information 
processing that can occur simultaneously in the verbal and the visual 
processing channels of the brain 
Collaborative Learning
: an umbrella term that covers many different 
methods in which students work together to solve a problem, complete 
a task, or create a product. Collaborative learning is founded in the 
concept that learning and knowledge building is social and requires 
active engagement from students.
Problem-Based Learning: 
A form of student-centered teaching that 
focuses on having students work through open-ended problems to 
explore course material. Students are asked to define the problem as 
part of the process, research content outside of class time and iterate 
solutions to arrive at their final response